Using punishment to change behaviour
Imagine you have a shop on the high street that is opposite a pub.
When you get to work in the morning the distinctly unpleasant stench of urine is there to greet you and your customers. Yuck!
You decide enough is enough, creating a sign like you spotted in San Francisco.
Here you are using the fear of public shaming to stop people peeing — threatening to post footage to YouTube so the pee-perpetrator will be embarrassed.
Your neighbour, Jill, is also sick of the pee and...
The ridiculous reason I became vegan
I never would have imagined I would become vegan, but as someone who is deeply into behaviour change I thought I’d share the reason it happened.
In case you are still a little fuzzy about what a vegan diet entails, it is plant-based without meat, eggs or dairy. I had become vegetarian earlier in the year so eliminating meat wasn’t a significant step. Dairy was. So why did it need to happen?
Ice cream.
I had developed an ice-coffee habit, enjoying one most lunch times. Was this a...
